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by Andrea Di Robilant
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2008
In 1787, the beautiful Lucia is married off to Alvise Mocenigo, scion of one of the most powerful Venetian families. But their life as a golden couple will be suddenly transformed when Venice falls to Bonaparte. We witness Lucia's painful series of miscarriages and the pressure on her to produce an...
The Good Man of Nanking
The Diaries of John Rabe
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The Good Man of Nanking is a crucial document for understanding one of World War II's most horrific incidents of genocide, one which the Japanese have steadfastly refused to acknowledge. It is also the moving and awe-inspiring record of one man's conscience, courage, and generosity in the face of...
His Final Battle
The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
A New York Times 2016 Notable Book
“By far the most enigmatic leading figure” of World War II. That’s how the British military historian John Keegan described Franklin D. Roosevelt, who frequently left his contemporaries guessing, never more so than at the end of his life. Here, in a...
by Gabriel García Márquez
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
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In 1955, Garcia Marquez was working for El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota, when in February of that year eight crew members of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were washed overboard and disappeared. Ten days later one of them turned up, barely alive,...
Mountains of the Mind
Adventures in Reaching the Summit
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
The basis for the new documentary film, Mountain: A Breathtaking Voyage into the Extreme. Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high landscapes, Robert McFarlane reveals how the mystery of the world’s highest places has came to grip...
The Passage of Power
The Years of Lyndon Johnson IV
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE, THE AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZE
Book Four of Robert A. Caro’s monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that led the Times of...
by John Milton Cooper, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
The first major biography of America’s twenty-eighth president in nearly two decades, from one of America’s foremost Woodrow Wilson scholars.
A Democrat who reclaimed the White House after sixteen years of Republican administrations, Wilson was a transformative president—he helped create...
by Nora Ephron
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.
Ephron...
The Lost Battles
Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
From one of Britain’s most respected and acclaimed art historians, art critic of The Guardian—the galvanizing story of a sixteenth-century clash of titans, the two greatest minds of the Renaissance, working side by side in the same room in a fierce competition: the master Leonardo da Vinci, commissioned...
Engineers of Dreams
Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Petroski reveals the science and engineering--not to mention the politics, egotism, and sheer magic--behind America's great bridges, particularly those constructed during the great bridge-building era starting in the 1870s and continuing through the 1930s. It is the story of the men and women who...
At the Strangers' Gate
Arrivals in New York
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
From The New York Times best-selling author of Paris to the Moon and beloved New Yorker writer, a memoir that captures the romance of New York City in the 1980s.
When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha, first arrived in 1980, New York City was a pilgrimage site for the young, the arty,...
Twentieth-Century Boy
Notebooks of the Seventies
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Celebrated painter Duncan Hannah arrived in New York City from Minneapolis in the early 1970s as an art student hungry for experience, game for almost anything, and with a prodigious taste for drugs, girls, alcohol, movies, rock and roll, books, parties, and everything else the city had to offer....
Do You Mr Jones?
Bob Dylan with the Poets and Professors
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
In 2016, Bob Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature ‘for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition’. This collection of essays by leading poets and critics – with a new foreword by Will Self – examines Dylan’s poetic genius, as well as his astounding...
by Mitchell Zuckoff
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Robert Altman—visionary director, hard-partying hedonist, eccentric family man, Hollywood legend—comes roaring to life in this rollicking oral biography. After an all-American boyhood in Kansas City, a stint flying bombers in World War II, and jobs ranging from dog tattoo entrepreneur to television...